parse error

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Bullock <kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org> writes:

   >> On Sep 16, 2016, at 15:28, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
   >> 
   >> hg export -r 'uwe % master' -o mypatch.patch
   >> 
   >> hg: parse error at 4: syntax error
   >> 
   >> Hg bookmarks gives:
   >> master                    2:1f0470d4786a
   >> * uwe                       5:fafe498954e1

   > Looks like you're running an ancient copy of Mercurial? The '%'
   > operator has been around for nearly two years.


 Oops 3.1.1 2014 I thought that is recent enough, but it seems not to be
 the case.


   > Unless your hg is even more ancient, you can probably still use
   > 'only(uwe, master)'.

Right, that was it!